Reality is something you can rise above, 2024, galvanised steel, perspex, rings, concrete, 210 cm high x 240 cm wide. Images courtesy of Alicia Scott.
Reality is something you can rise above, 2024, galvanised steel, perspex, rings, concrete, 210 cm high x 240 cm wide. Images courtesy of Alicia Scott.
The work focuses on the uncertain future of the Compass Centre, once a thriving community hub but now existing in a stasis, mostly vacant with an approved DA for the tallest towers in Bankstown. The perspex motif is an adaptation of the original steel logo, located above the entrance to the arcade directly across the road. The sun is setting on the Compass Centre, and rising on a new direction for Bankstown. Commissioned by Bankstown Art Centre for Hyperreal Amble.
The city looks so empty from where I am standing, 2024, steel, perspex, lenticular glass, timber, spray paint, 177 cm high x 77 cm wide. Images courtesy of Alicia Scott.
A scale replica of the unique porthole windows found on the Bankstown Parcels Office, slated for demolition to make way for a new Sydney Metro railway line. A rare Australian example of the Functionalist architecture movement, the window now functions as an illusionary tool. A layer of lenticular glass causes the background to seem transitory, constantly disappearing and reemerging into view. Commissioned by Bankstown Art Centre for Hyperreal Amble.
I'm picking up what you are putting down, 2024, 150 custom made coins, 25.5mm x 1.5mm. Images courtesy of the artist.
The work referenced the Half Penny Scramble, an annual event in the Bankstown pool calendar when the Mayor would throw handfuls of the coins to a lively crowd crammed in the pool. Scattered between the Art Centre and Bryan Brown Theatre on the opening night of Hyperreal Amble, visitors to the exhibition were encouraged to pick up and take home a coin. The work linked the histories of the Bankstown Art Centre site, with the koi motif paying homage to an inaugural public art project by Popper Box in 2011. Commissioned by Bankstown Art Centre for Hyperreal Amble.